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My Oven's Broke...No-Bake Cookies It Is!

My oven has never been broken before. Of course the SECOND I realized it was broken, I wanted to bake everything. Funny how that works, right? Lucky for me the very day I came home to a broken oven was also the day I purchased these great no-bake healthy fudge bites. Which got my brain ticking when it came to "no baking."

These were the inspiration behind the no-bake cookies.

Lucky for me, my oven was fixed just a few days later at which time I began furiously baking anything that would fit in my oven. This went on for several days....but before it was fixed, and before I baked like a mad-woman, I made these no bake cookies and they were awesome!

I also believe these cookies to be generally healthy. Yes, I did add some cocoa puffs to these cookies....but generally, I don't buy cocoa puffs, so maybe I was high on the cocoa goodness. You could substitute anything for the cocoa puffs...like Trix. Just kidding! You could sub some nuts or extra coconut, or chocolate chips, or granola. Whatever you like.

Part of that adaptation included using raw honey that I had bought at the store. I am not lying when I say that this is the ACTUAL moment I found out that raw honey was more of a solid than a liquid. I had no idea. I also learned that it is sweeter than regular honey... Raw honey and I are sort of in love now.

Peanut butter. Okay, this might sound dense, but I never made the connection that peanut butter was a "nut butter." Like almond butter... why didn't I make this connection? I don't know. But I didn't.